Page Text: About the Course
Who is this course for?
This web design course has been designed for people who want to quickly and easily build a good looking and functional web site using WordPress.
Our students include:
Small business owners who want to save real money by doing it themselves
Sales reps frustrated trying to get things done in their own organisation
Receptionists and Secretaries who need this skill because the boss has said: “build a web site“.
People with home businesses and businesses on the side who can’t afford to engage an expensive design agency
Students who want to broaden their skill base and learn something they can make money from today, not 3 years from now
Graphic artists who want to increase the range of services they can offer their clients
What entry skills do I need?
To build a web site using our system is simple and straightforward. Some basic html knowledge would be useful, but not necessary.
What are the training objectives?
Having attended the course you will be able to:
List the 10 steps in building a web site from scratch from domain name registration through to search engine optimisation.
Explain how to register a domain name and why you should never use Melbourne IT.
Explain how to buy reliable web hosting and detail the sorts of features you should be looking for in a hosting account.
Log into your domain management account and change the DNS setting for your domain.
Log into your web hosting account and allocate web hosting to your domain name.
Explain the purpose and advantages of using an open source content management system.
Install the content management system or your new web site.
Find, select and install a theme for your web site.
Create new web pages using the content management system.
Upload, resize, align and caption images on web pages
Describe the difference between posts and pages
Create an image gallery by uploading images from your desktop
Manage an image gallery to resize, sort and tag thumbnails
Perform basic on-site search engine optimisation on your web pages
Create a sitemap for your web site using an open source plugin
What else do I get?
As part of your training package you will also get:
Your own domain name*
Your own reseller level cPanel web hosting for 12 months (you can then sell web sites yourself). See all the features.
Free email, scripts and content management systems including WordPress, Joomla and other features
Administrator access to your web hosting so you can set up email and other common functions
Access to the content management system for your web site
Ongoing support via phone or email
Access to hundreds of beautiful themes and useful plugins to make your web site a business-magnet !
*Domain name subject to availability